Recordings of the 2013 Annual Retreat at Crewe
Friday – Sunday, 10 – 12 May 2013

Fifty Ways to Find the Beloved, Part Two:
The Healing Life of Sufi Zikr and Meditation

“While Zikar is not used to restore health to the ill or ailing, it can and should be adopted to increase the vital capacity of every one. In that way it becomes the best protection against illness. It aids in augmenting the capacity of the body for the vitality which exists in the space. There is one effect of musical tones that they increase the capacity of the cells of the body for light, for the living light which is brought in through the breath. The music helps the body to vibrate and this vibration when started in and centered in heart touches all parts of the body and personality.”
– Murshid Samuel Lewis

Teachings based on the paper by Murshid Samuel Lewis:

“On The Performance Of Zikr” [download a pdf of the paper here]

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Friday 10th May 2013

20.15-22.00	Evening session	1hr 25mins
0.00 1.20 16.50 36.00 47.30 51.00 55.30 1h 1m 20 1h 08m 20	Invocation Tansen. Dance: La ilaha el il allah hu Saadi. Dance: Ina wa aby, hud h’nan Tansen. Dance: Zikr of the Tender Heart Introducing ourselves Tansen: Explaining timetable for the weekend Saadi: Introduction; talking about Sura al Ikhlas Tansen. Seated practice: Darood ‘Toward the One’ and SAM’s notes on it. Saadi. Dance: Alaha d’shrara belhud / Alaha shebah

Saturday 11th May 2013

8.00-8.30	Morning Practices	30mins
0.00 12.00 14.20 23.20	Invocation and healing breaths Walking all the elements together Sitting practice: Breathing Allah in the heart SAM practice – four directions cross of light. Subuhun, kudusun, rabbul-malaekate, wa ruh

10.00-11.00	First morning session	58mins
0.00 5.20 10.40 24.00 50.00	Tansen. Breathing Toward the One. Tansen. Walking & breathing with Alhamdulillah Tansen. Dance: Zikr of the Morning Breeze Saadi. Dance: First part of Zikr al Ikhlas – Bismillah er rahman er rahim qul hu / Qul hu allah hu ahad Saadi. Breathing with Allah hu ahad (feel the cross of light at the end of the meditation)

11.30-13.00	Second morning session	1hr 16mins
0.00 13.20 27.00 45.30 51.50 59.00 1.07.30	Tansen. Dance: Wedding/blessing dance Tansen. Dance: Crescent & heart zikr (?) Saadi. Seated practice: Feeling star & crescent moon in the heart. SAM’s darood ‘Allah huma salle allah nuru zalame’ Breathing with the phrase Q & A session Tansen. Reading from SAM’s paper on the benefits of darood. Question re nuru zalame

15.15-16.15	Afternoon first session	1hr 5mins
0.00 5.00 9.30 24.30 34.30 38.20 46.00	Tansen. Reading from SAM’s paper on Allaho Akbar Tansen. Seated practice: Allaho akbar Tansen. Dance: Allaho Akbar, Ya Salaam Saadi. Ya Samad & concentration on the cross. Saadi. Seated practice introduction Saadi. Seated chant: Ya Samad Saadi. Dance: Allahu Samad

16.45-18.00	Afternoon second session	38mins
0.00 14.30 27.50	Saadi. Dance: Mohammed Abdullah dance Tansen. Dance: Custom Zikr Sit for silent meditation for 10 mins

20.15-22.00	Evening session	1hr 47mins
0.00 .. 12.40 14.30 27.00 1h 05m 1h 20m	Saadi: Invocation. Revision of whole of Al Ikhlas Zikr. Sing through of ‘Lam yalid wa lam yulad’ line. Breathing with the feeling of the words Saadi: Sing through of last line of zikr – ‘Wa-lam yaku la-hu kufuwan ‘ahad’. Tansen. Dance: Hazrat Inayat Khan Zikr. Sit for silent meditation Saadi: Sufi teaching stories.

Sunday 12th May 2013

8.00-8.30	Morning Practices	29mins
0.00 2.30 5.30 7.20 22.20	Tansen on lute Tansen: Chant: Hu Allah, la ilaha il allah. Silent meditation Practice: dot and circle. Repeat of chant from start of session

10.00-11.00	First morning session	57mins
0.00 2.00 43.00	Invocation Saadi. Dance: Al Ikhlas Zikr Saadi. Seated meditation: breathing Allah hu in the heart.

11.30-13.00	Second morning session	1h 8mins
0.00 8.40 17.40 24.30 30.30 32.40 34.00 41.00 .. 51.20 .. 1h 2m 40 1h 7m 30	Tansen. Dance: Bismillah, Ya Fattah. Tansen. Seated practice: concentration on the dove. Tansen. Reading from SAM’s paper on Ya Djawaunah – helps restore magnetism. Tansen. Chant, then breathing with the phrase: Ya Djawaunah Q & A session. Saadi recites the Sura Al Ikhlas Saadi: How to use the Sura in your practices. Saadi: overview re. Abdul Qadr Jilani, and SAM paper re. the phrase La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah Saadi. Seated chant: La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah / AAala kuli shayin qadir / Qadir Allah. Saadi. Walking with the feeling of the zikr, and Ya Qadir in the heart. Grace before lunch

14.15-15.00	Afternoon final session	18mins
0.00 9.30	Tansen. Dance: May the blessings of God rest upon you Saadi. Dance: Kalama.